Yachting: Intrepid for the Defense

No man to shilly-shally is Commodore Henry
Morgan, 66, chairman of the New York Yacht Club's selection committee,
whose job it was to pick the U.S. 12-meter yacht that will defend the
America's Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie starting Sept. 12. The
final selection trials were only a week along when Morgan politely
informed Bob McCullough and George Hinman, the helmsmen of
Constellation and American Eagle, that their continued presence on the
24.3-mile course off Newport, R.I., was no longer required. The
decision was hardly a shock: Connie, the 1964 Cup defender, was
obviously slower than her syndicate-mate, Intrepid,...